Movie Review: Shrek

Animated movies have gotten more popular, as well as more frequent throughout the years, the popularity started in 1995, when Toy Story, one of the best animated movies of all-time was released, then is 1998 another animated movie was released, 'A Bug's Life' which was a good movie, but not near any of the Toy Story standards, then again in 1999, the sequel to Toy Story, Toy Story 2 was released, and it was a movie that surpassed the quality of the original, then two years later, Monster's Inc. came out, which was a great movie, but not as good as Toy Story or Toy Story 2, but then, at the same year, there was an animated movie which almost reached the Toy Story quality, a movie that was almost as good and almost as funny, and for once, the movie was not like most of the successful animated movies out during the late 90s and the early 2000s, the movie was not PIXAR, the movie actually made another company jump to working on animated movies, the movie was called Shrek.

Shrek has a strong story, it's about an ogre named Shrek, that lives alone in a swamp, then suddenly, fairytale creatures are surrounding the swamp, Shrek wants the creatures out of his swamp, so he goes to the man that sent them there, a man named Lord Farquaad, and Farquaad tells Shrek that if he wants his swamp back, he has to rescue a princess named princess Fiona from a fire breathing dragon on the top floor of a castle, surrounded by lava, but Shrek doesn't do it alone, he has help from an annoying talking Donkey.

By reading the plot summery, it's easy to tell that the movie would be exciting, and it's easy to tell that there is a handful of great characters, such as Shrek, a mean, grumpy, and selfish ogre, another largely amusing character is an annoying talking Donkey named Donkey, also who could forget the spoiled princess who is despite for true love's first kiss named princess Fiona, most of the characters change throughout the story, such as Shrek, he starts off as a mean and grumpy ogre then he ends up falling in love with Fiona, another character who changes throughout the movie is Fiona, she was a spoiled princess, who was not willing to tell anyone about her curse, but then she becomes convinced to tell Shrek about her curse, because throughout the movie, it begins to show that she is falling in love with Shrek.

There are allot of funny jokes and ideas in Shrek, especially circulating around Donkey, who, as we all know, is talkative and annoying, some great jokes include him, some of the notable jokes include a joke that Shrek compares himself with an onion, saying that they both are smelly, while Donkey's guesses are that onions are smelly, dry, and become black with white hares when staying in the sun too long, also the fact that he did not let go of it was funny, also the joke that Donkey reveals that he's color blind, after Fiona tells him to get a blue flower with red thorns, there where allot more great jokes with Donkey, but the thing is with Donkey is that he's annoying, talkative, and at the same time a good friend, Donkey did not leave Shrek alone, because he forgave Shrek for being mean to him.

All the Disney spoofs in the movie where all hilarious, there where allot of Disney spoofs in the movie, Shrek spoofed the talking mirror, Snow White, and allot more, but the problem with that is that the Disney spoof idea did get annoying in some points.

The movie also had some other minor errors, such as the scenes when the characters where walking sad, or happy, or any way to put it, there was annoying background music with it, and the problem with that is that it tends to get annoying at some point, the ending was sort-of dull, and mediocre, also the fairytale theme was mixed at best, I think that the movie could have done allot better without it.

Generally Shrek is one of the only, and first animated movies to compare to the Toy Story, it opened doors for allot of animated movies to be as good or even better than many PIXAR movies, the story, jokes, animation, characters, and the all-star cast all helped on making this movie very strong, but I think that it could have been better without the heavy fairytale theme, or the boring scenes, but none the less, the movie is not as good as the Toy Story movies, but it's certainly good enough to be compared to them, so with very few errors, and largely powerful pluses, this movie is going to go count as history, as one of the best animated movies of all-time.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 5

-Story(out of 8)= 7

-Plot(out of 8)= 6

-Actions(out of 6)= 4

-Effects(out of 4)= 4

-Character Developement(out of 8)= 8

*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 34

4 Stars



*Rating System:

0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars